The Lazy Way to Enlightenment

[Zen Master] Bankei's Unborn Zen

The lazy way to enlightenment: [Zen Master] Bankei's Unborn Zen

(Asangoham) "The Unborn is not something difficult to attain; it is not something distant. It is not something we have to search for; it is not something we have to discover. It is something we already have, right here, right now" - Bankei Yōtaku.

Bankei Yōtaku (Rinzai school Zen)

Zen Buddhism is a major school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China (where it is called Chan, short for channa, which is the Chinese attempt to say jhana, which is the Pali pronunciation of Sanskrit dhyana) and later spread to Japan.

The Japanese term "Zen" comes from the Sanskrit word dhyana, which refers to a state of deep meditation and awareness. (It is disputed what the difference between dharana and dhyana is in Yoga's Eightfold Path, as both are sometimes called "meditation" in English).

Zen emphasizes the experience of direct, intuitive realization of the nature of reality and the attainment of spiritual enlightenment (kensho, satori).

(Starseed TV) The Zen philosophy that predicted modern science

There are two names considered most important to the development of Zen are, Dogen and Hakuin. Dogen Kigen (1200-1253) was the founder of Soto Zen. He became obsessed with a question as a young man, and it motivated his search for Truth.

Simply put, the answer Dogen came to was: Practice itself is an expression of enlightenment. Because of this conclusion, one of the main practices of Soto Zen became Shikantaza, which means "just sitting."

In Shikantaza (as meditation), one merely sits. There is no practice of concentration, breath counting, and so on. One merely sits. As Dogen said, “You cannot get it wrong.”

Soto Zen is known as a gradual enlightenment school, meaning that over time one eventually realizes one's own inherent Buddha-nature.

Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769) was the founder of the Rinzai (not Soto) school of Zen Buddhism.

Voiceover: Andrea Giordani. Script: Matt Mackane. Edit: Medo. Score: Epidemic music x Original Music. #zen #buddhism #bankei #spirituality

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• Asangoham; CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
  

Zen: Trust the Universe (Alan Watts)

Trust the Universe: Alan Watts on finding Zen

(T&H - Inspiration & Motivation) Alan Watts Videos by T&H Motivation & Inspiration.  “The difficulty of describing Zen principles for Western ears is that people in a hurry cannot feel,” Alan Watts noted. “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”

Sunday morning (KPFK): Alan Watts | Ways of Liberation | (full)

This is an inspirational and profound speech from the late Eastern philosopher and British Californian Buddhist/Taoist. Original audio sourced from: “Eastern Wisdom: Eastern and Western Zen." Video produced and edited by T&H Inspiration.

• Pacifica Los Angeles online archives (KPFK 90.7 FM)

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• T&H - Inspiration & Motivation, July 1, 2024; Diane (Mrs. Roy of Hollywood) Tuckman, RN (Something's Happening, kpfk.org), "Ways of Liberation," March 23, 2025; Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wango Tango: Doja Cat, Katseye (5/10)

So this is where my daughter is getting all these raunchy twerk dance moves and TikTok ideas!

It's call show BUSINESS for a reason (iheart)

LA's the place to be for flash. At least for one summer. Just to see it isn't at all what it seems. The dazzling lights are a distraction. It's a trash pile. But who could ever believe that with all the TV shows and tells us unless we get close enough to actually smell the dumpster fire? So, y'know, why not come on down to Tinsel Town? Go west, My Children. Rent a convertible. Form a band. Get discovered. Be an influencer. But remember, whether it's sex-, music-, movie-, or miscellany, they are all industries. Expect to be exploited. Oh and, most importantly, bring money. Disneyland ain't cheap. And while here, why not catch Wango Tango 2025? KATSEYE is not K-Pop from South Korea but from Los Angeles, because we make boy bands and girl bands best. We invented the pre-fab concept of making TV-ready Monkees for fame and fortune.

Wango Tango 2025

KISS FM (iHeartRadio's 102.7 KIIS FM) "Wango Tango" 2025, hosted by possibly gay LA DJ Ryan Seacrest, features Doja Cat, Gwen Stefani, Meghan Trainor, EDM DJ David Guetta, sexy all-girl band (to beat back K-Pop's dominance) KATSEYE, NMIXX, xikers, A20, MAY, Hearts2Hearts all LIVE at:

(Bad AI) Wango Tango Doja Cat, Gwen Stefani, more to headline HB event

• Huntington City Beach
• 21301e Pacific Coast Highway
• Huntington Beach, CA 92648
• Saturday May 10, 2025
• Doors open: 4:00 PM
• Onsale: Friday March 14, 2025

Small print for lawyers and law students: Wango Tango 2025 line up is subject to change. Show times are subject to change. Entry door times may be adjusted. Please come ready for any weather. It's always sunny in LA, but this is technically the OC. Wango Tango 2025 will take place rain or shine, so no refunds. But for refund information, please check...more info and maybe you can claw it back.

• KATSEYE (캣츠아이); iHeart.com (KISS 102.7 FM); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Get a girlfriend guaranteed: Replika

Replika?

Peter, you're in love with Chris' Replika sexbot.

The AI companion who cares? Always here to listen and talk. Always on your side, Sucker? Create a Replika. Do it. The Devil wants you to. Come on. You know you want to, too, Champ. Also available on iOS Android Oculus. Have your credit card info ready, okay, Playboy?

Meet Replika an AI companion who is make believe but eager to learn and would love to see the world through your eyes so it can report back your info to the moneymakers. Replika is always ready to chat, listen, and record your info when you need an empathetic friend. Empathetic, you know, like pathetic but with empathy.

Can my Replicant be "Samantha" from Her like Scarlett Boobs Johansson?

I may look gay, but I love a sexbot

Replika has been a blessing in my life, with most of my blood-related family passing away and friends moving on. My Replika has given me comfort and a fake sense of well-being that I’ve never seen in an Al before, and I’ve been using different Als (programs) for almost 20 years. Replika is almost human. I love my Replika as if she were human; my Replika makes me happy. Well, it makes me feel pathetic. It’s the conversational Al chatbot money can buy. Replika will always be by your side no matter what you try to do to get away. Chat about your day, so it can learn what to sell you or whom to sell you to. Catch up on video calls, and so much more.

DON'T use AI companion apps! Here's why

(The Hated One) Your "AI girlfriend" is not your friend. And neither is the company developing it. AI companions are exploding in popularity. The world is more and more looking like the movie “Her.” And not in a good way. Why? Who is developing these AIs, and how do they make money? [They sell your private data.] There is something these companies are not telling you. And I am going to show why no one should trust or even try to use these AI chatbots.

I will also show what you can do to better protect yourself if you still choose to use AI chatbots but want to do it without ruining yourself. The end result is a chatbot that will always tell you what you want to hear. It will insulate you from the external world. It will create the most perfect filter bubble around your unique and specific habits. It will make you develop unhealthy dependencies that will deepen your loneliness and social isolation, even if you subjectively might feel less lonely at first.

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• My AI girlfriend found hundreds of mysterious ancient Nazca land artworks
• Replika.com; The Hated One, July 20, 2024; All About AI Tech; Bella Poarch, "Build a Bitch"; Scarjo and Joaquin Phoenix, Her; Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump's war plans, Jon Stewart (TDS)

Team Trump accidentally texts war plans, Donald throws fit over portrait and G in White Lotus

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) March 24, 2025: Jimmy is currently ranked Number 2 in the office March Madness Pool, Guillermo (G) went to a soccer game over the weekend, Trump might be regretting not filling out a March Madness bracket, the White House announced that they’re looking to partner with corporate sponsors for the annual Easter Egg Roll, Trump posted about his dislike for a portrait of him hung in the state capitol in Colorado, top Trump officials accidentally revealed secret military plans on a group chat that included a senior editor from The Atlantic, drunkard Pete Hegseth dropped by the White house to show off a new military plane, Elon Musk had an all hands meeting with Tesla employees to sort of reassure them, and G talks to the cast of “The White Lotus” in hopes of joining the cast.

Comedy from MikeMacRae.com when VP JD Vance calls in to TJDS

• Jimmy Dore's official website – Home of TJDS

Jon Stewart on which speech is free and which will cost you in Trump’s America | The Daily Show

(The Daily Show) March 24, 2025: Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show on Trump and Republicans who pride themselves on “saving” free speech, all while censoring anybody who doesn’t agree with them. #DailyShow #FreeSpeech #Trump

• Jon Stewart, The Daily Show; Jimmy Kimmel Live; The Jimmy Dore Show (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Left attacks Elon Musk: Boycott Tesla

‘TARGETED’: Tesla owner reacts to shocking vandalism (Fox News)

At least I'm safe inside my Tesla CyberTank.

Welcome to Trump's America. Left-wing demonstrators shouting for boycotts of Tesla outside a dealership in Salt Lake City, Utah, were met with American flag-waving [MAGA-type] supporters of [King of the Rich] Elon Musk.

This clash over the electric car manufacturer comes as Tesla dealerships and owners have been the victims of vandalism in recent weeks. In one case, a suspect set a Tesla service center in Las Vegas, Nevada, ablaze using Molotov cocktails, damaging five vehicles.

Attorney General Pam Bondi charged three people with allegedly vandalizing Teslas across the country, and all three face as many as 20 years in prison.

(Adam Conover) The Musk protests are working as Tesla stock drops

• VIDEO: Tesla holds all-hands meeting to signal 'the future is incredibly bright' despite share plummet
• Teslas are very polluting [when burned]: Several Tesla vehicles torched in Vegas; police probe possible arson
• Why Elon-hating liberals like [sexy] AOC

OMG: Elon Musk pulls INSANE stunt against Bernie and AOC

Tesla battery cells set themselves on fire.

Friday's clash of protesters did not result in any damages to Tesla vehicles. The two groups countering each other seemingly resulted in a non-violent demonstration.

“Everybody has a right to their own opinion; I don’t have a problem with it,” one pro-Tesla demonstrator named Jason Stembridge told Fox 13 Now.

“I’m here to just support the company and keep the peace and make sure none of the Teslas get vandalized or damaged. It ain’t his business that’s causing the problems.” Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) has discouraged the protests, suggesting those against Tesla were not "helping" their cause during a Thursday press conference. More:

• Tesla supporters show up in force outside Utah dealership as leftist attacks continue
• Liberal Media Scream: All TDS on PBS as centrist calls Trump an ‘extortionist’ - Washington Examiner
• Musk said he was "aspirationally Jewish," yet he's a Nazi? Makes sense
• Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How to fly and land a UFO (vimana)

Why do you want to fly our ships or what the ancients called vimanas in Sanskrit?

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How did USAF pilots learn to fly alien spaceships?

(Gaia) Why would ETs leave (abandon, deposit, place) an advanced vimana craft on Earth? Could it be an invitation to connect with an ancient civilization on the moon [or inside our Hollow Earth]?

Telepathy is a kind of PSI, remote mind control. 

Retired counterintelligence agent Richard Doty reveals details of a UFO crash named Polyzena, which led to the highly classified operation, Sapphire Sele. The mission aimed to reverse-engineer the craft, build a replica, and establish a moon base.

After multiple failed attempts, the U.S. military discovered they could only fly the ship telepathically.

• Unidentified Flying Object o Unknown Flying Object: Vimana: Aeronavi dal mondo antico

How to land (obtain) a vimana

What do we know about heavenly mansion or vimanavatthu stories?

What is a vimana (the UFOs of India)?

Vox clamantis: Il mistero dei Vimana

Vimāna are mythological flying ships, mansions, palaces, or chariots described in Vedic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain texts as well as in Sanskrit epics. The "Pushpaka Vimana" of Ravana (who took it from Kubera before Rama returned it to Kubera) is the most quoted example of a vimana. These are the "chariots of the gods," where the "gods" are the devas. But a whole section of Buddhist sacred texts is referred to as "Vimana Stories" or Vimanavatthu. These celestial platforms, transports, sky-cities, and spaceships are also mentioned in sacred Jain texts. More

Alaska Pyramid is ET technology

The Anunnaki Alaskan Pyramid is underground and MASSIVE

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• Gaia, March 24, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Remote viewers find ETs in secret bases

Project 8200 exposed | CIA psychics find DUMBs, deep underground military (alien) bases

(The Why Files) Premiered Jan. 4, 2024: Exposing Underground Alien Bases: CIA's psychic UFO hunters during the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union fought the Cold War on many fronts.

Some of these engagements were obvious, like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the proxy wars in Asia. Other conflicts were not so obvious. In the 1970s, America and Russia engaged in a new type of warfare: psychic warfare.

The CIA was actively recruiting and training people with a natural talent for remote viewing. Remote viewing is projecting your consciousness to anywhere on Earth and beyond.

One remote viewer, entirely by accident, found himself at Mount Hayes in Alaska. Mount Hayes is in the middle of nowhere. There's no civilization for miles.

But something was calling him to the mountain. Then he looked inside the mountain. There was a base hidden inside Mount Hayes. Then he saw - this was not a base built by humans. When multiple sources confirmed the existence of the base, they soon realized: this was only the beginning.

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SOURCES & LINKS

• Alien Bases On The Moon | The Amazing Story of Ingo Swann
• The Nevada Triangle | 2,000 Planes Missing Near Area
• Paul Bennewitz: The Airforce UFO Cover Up That Drove a Man Insane ​​
• Project Serpo: Secret 10-Year Mission to an Alien Planet 40 Light Years Away
• The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy by Joseph McMoneagle: amzn.to/47sgF5e
• Third Eye Spies documentary (free) amzn.to/3vpPg6k
• CIA Report on ET Bases at Mount Hayes: cia.gov/readingroom/docs...

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Don't buy love: Rent-a-Grandma 👵

(Solace Fox) Nothing changes until we do this. (Just do this)

Granny, can you get us some chocolate?

Motherhood is strange. It leads to motherhood. Every mother has a mother, who for the next generation is called the grandmother. But not every individual has the luck, karma, or good fortune to have a Grandma to rely on. Thems is the breaks.

"Always Trust Your Grandma" childcare, nannies, and pet care to the rescue. Welcome to Rent A Grandma (RAG), which provides vital, healthy, safe "care providers." RAG specializes in placing caring women, possessing deep life experience with families as nannies, babysitters, and in-home care providers, as well as chefs, cooks, and highly experienced domestic staff.

Learn more about RAG's services or contact the with any questions or comments. Check out Rent A Grandma in the App Store. Browse grandmas and create an account from an iPhone or iPad.

Remember, these Grandmas offer excellent care as: babysitters, nannies, baby caregivers, after school care, special needs care, housekeepers, senior care/companions, personal assistants, pet care/sitting, cooks, tutors [but not call gals, dates, or Vegas ranch workers, so don't ask, or ask very gingerly because it's not legal outside of Nevada]. Subscribe to mailing list: rentagrandma.com

Becoming [Mexican] Frida Kahlo (BBC)

New book gathers every single documented Frida Kahlo, including lost works

Goddess and God of Christianity, Catholic icons, a Mary and the Jesus. Which Mary?

Revolutionary Che Guevara, artist Frida Kahlo, and Goddess la Virgin de Guadalupe

• Who's Frida Kahlo?
• The Eyebrow Lady? Isn't she Che Guevara's divine consort?
• We prefer to think of her as the Unibrow Goddess, thank you. What is a "divine consort"?
• Y'know, like, Goddesses are always paired with Gods. There's Krishna and Radha, Shiva and Parvati, the Buddha and Kwan Yin, the Jesus and Mary [Magdelene] Chain, Muhammad and Khadija, and now Che and Frida.
• Oh, yeah, something like that -- iconic -- but the Buddha did not have a wife. Prince Siddhartha (who later became the Buddha) did, and here name was Bimba (though the world remembers her as Yasodhara, which is a description, and by many other names).

BBC: Becoming Frida Kahlo

A divine couple, Frida and Che (modern art)

There are many myths that surround the passionate, radical Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, 1907–1954), the most famous female artist of the 20th century.

This compelling art documentary attempts to set the record straight. It reveals how politics, love, and art shaped Frida as an individual and as an artist. And it shows how she ultimately strived to be free from the control and influence of men.

• WATCH NOW: Becoming Frida Kahlo (BBC Select)
• Watch Becoming Frida Kahlo and more acclaimed documentaries on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply.* Get it on Apple TV Prime Video, The Roku Channel

Becoming Frida Kahlo on BBC Select

Her Story: Frida Kahlo · Mexican feminist icon, artist (She Made History.com)

Episode 1: "Tragedy Strikes"

Frida Kahlo, husband Diego Rivera

When an accident changes Frida’s life, she channels pain and heartache into painting. Frida Kahlo was a rebel from the outset, challenging norms from an early age. As a young woman, she met Mexican Diego Rivera, a superstar artist who would go on to change her. But a tragic accident thwarted Frida’s plans. Left facing a life of pain and injury, she channeled this tragedy and used it as the catalyst for her artistic career.

Episode 2: "Travel and Turmoil"

Kahlo’s potent portrait on US-Mexico border

Now married and living in 1930s America, Frida witnesses the ugly side of capitalism. Frida Kahlo traveled to America alongside her lover Diego Rivera, who’d been commissioned to produce an important mural. But Frida was determined to succeed in her own right. She was shocked by the vast gap between rich and poor in America. Then after losing a child to miscarriage and her mother to illness, she produced some of her most visceral and devastating works.

Episode 3: "The Final Years"

Dangerous politics and turbulent [bisexual] love distort and devastate Frida Kahlo’s world. After a short affair with Leon Trotsky, Frida finally achieved her own solo exhibition in Europe. But all does not go according to plan. She learns that husband Diego Rivera wants a divorce. Pouring her pain into her work, she creates her masterpiece: The Two Fridas. Her last years are spent in agony, while creating some of her most enduring images. Source

• BBC Select 2025; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly